I’ve been thinking a lot about pace and timing this month as each draft of my play has required a completely different creative pace. In this episode I talk about:
Different drafts require a different pace.
Our inner artist requires a different pace in different seasons of projects.
Anxiety and our relationship to time.
The story we tell ourselves about the pace our project is moving at. Do you feel better about your writing when it’s coming along quickly? Are you patient with the slower parts of the project that are more about hours spent than outcome?
Working consistently versus only working in 'favourable conditions'.
When pace impacts how successful I feel.
For myself, fitting in small amounts of writing more often gets me further than waiting for chances to do big creative marathons. Even though this is true, I so rarely celebrate chipping away and often only allow myself to feel successful after a marathon effort.
Meaningful progress can’t always be measured and yet we still need to tend to our ideas as if they are progressing.
Allowing our ideas to reveal themselves to us on their own timing. Maybe, like people, our ideas feel shy and introverted some days and more extroverted and talkative on other days. So we need to develop a patient relationship with our project.
This episode was originally recorded in June 2021. You can watch the video diary here: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CQwrSWaD7zr
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